Posted by Andy Hassall on 11/16/05 00:20

On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:59:17 -0000, "elyob" <newsprofile@gmail.com> wrote:

> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />

PHP is a server-side programming language, and so is capable of outputting
real HTTP headers. These are by far more preferable to meta Content-type
headers, which are more useful for storage media that don't have separate
metadata - i.e. when just dumped to a filesystem.

<?php header("Content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8"); ?.

... is much more likely to cause the browser to accept the encoding of the
page as UTF-8.

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